In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.